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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4644791, member: 89514"]PeteB:</p><p><br /></p><p>A very interesting large bronze of Domna! Apparently only the third large obv. die recorded for her, and different from the other two in having a small low nest of hair behind her ear, not a large bun covering the whole back of her head. Kryzanowska records what is apparently the same rev. die used also with her obv. XXXI of Caracalla (IMP CAE M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, pl. XXIII) and her obv. XVIII of Geta Augustus (IMP CAES P SEPT GETA AVG, p. 167, first entry on page). Neither of the two togate figures on rev. has a long beard, so they are presumably Caracalla and Geta as joint Augusti, and the coin will date to between Geta's promotion to Augustus late in 209 and his assassination by Caracalla in Dec. 211.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Collector and others:</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't recall author's name or publication, but several months ago I was given a link to a very interesting and I thought convincing article by a known German scholar, proposing that S R on Antioch's coins from Sept. Sev. on stood for Socii or Socia Romanorum, that is Allies or Ally of the Romans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4644791, member: 89514"]PeteB: A very interesting large bronze of Domna! Apparently only the third large obv. die recorded for her, and different from the other two in having a small low nest of hair behind her ear, not a large bun covering the whole back of her head. Kryzanowska records what is apparently the same rev. die used also with her obv. XXXI of Caracalla (IMP CAE M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, pl. XXIII) and her obv. XVIII of Geta Augustus (IMP CAES P SEPT GETA AVG, p. 167, first entry on page). Neither of the two togate figures on rev. has a long beard, so they are presumably Caracalla and Geta as joint Augusti, and the coin will date to between Geta's promotion to Augustus late in 209 and his assassination by Caracalla in Dec. 211. Roman Collector and others: I can't recall author's name or publication, but several months ago I was given a link to a very interesting and I thought convincing article by a known German scholar, proposing that S R on Antioch's coins from Sept. Sev. on stood for Socii or Socia Romanorum, that is Allies or Ally of the Romans.[/QUOTE]
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